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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Veldt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do George and Lydia hear while they are lying in bed?
(a) Two screams
(b) Lions roaring
(c) The front door opening and closing
(d) Their children whispering

2. Where are the lions going?
(a) To the watering hole
(b) To eat
(c) To bed down for night time
(d) To hunt

3. What concerns George?
(a) George is concerned that his children don’t come home for dinner
(b) George is concerned that the lions were killing and eating, which means that for this to happen his children had thought of death
(c) George is concerned that they don’t have enough money to pay their bills
(d) George is concerned that Lydia doesn’t have enough to do in the house

4. What are their bedrooms called?
(a) Sleepertubes
(b) Flues
(c) Bedrooms
(d) Slumber rooms

5. What does Lydia hear that George does not?
(a) Songbirds
(b) Their children calling them
(c) A scream
(d) Classical music

Short Answer Questions

1. What doesn’t Dr. McClean think “feels good”?

2. When was The Veldt published?

3. Dinner is being prepared for a family of ________.

4. What is David McClean?

5. How does the nursery create scenes?

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